it was not going to make any difference in egypt. as far as libya, at first it seemed like we got lucky and qadhafi went down easily, you know, in the last couple of weeks, think seemed to have turned around. god only knows what's going to happen in syria. it's much more complex than iraq. we always say we are going to do this and that, the shiites, the police, the sunnis, the stuff, i can say that i spent a lot of time in that part of the world. it doesn't even make sense when you're there, let alone we are sitting back here and thinking bigger than sit there with your wrist for making it all work out. i was going to mention the humble foreign policy. you know, i'm still waiting for my country to rise up and live up the promise of that treaty. >> i think that is what i am talking about. the idea that it would even be desirable for us flip the switch and dictate clinical outcomes in foreign countries. you are dealing with multiple political factions about which we have very limited knowledge about how to effect the outcome so we thin